Bobsledder goes third on GB all-time list for 100m

Only Linford Christie (9.87s) and James Dasaolu (9.91s) have run quicker.

Fearon, who helped GB to fifth at the Sochi Winter Olympics in the four-man bobsleigh, was aided by a marginally legal +2.0 wind as he stormed to victory at the England Athletics Championships in Bedford.

However, he will not compete at the Olympics in Rio later this summer, with the three-man 100m contingent of Dasaolu, Chijindu Ujah and James Ellington already selected.

Ujah has also run 9.96s, while Ellington’s personal best is 10.04s – although the latter did clock 9.96s with an illegal tailwind when placing second at the British Athletics Championships in June.

Fearon was part of the GB 4x100m relay squad at the 2013 World Championships in Russia, but did not compete.

He told Athletics Weekly his focus was on bobsleigh but he would like to continue racing on the track: "It's a year before [qualification starts for] our Olympics so it's up to [British Bobsleigh].

"I'm their athlete so if they give me the freedom to go out and run, and if I'm in a position where I could make it, they'll allow me to go and do it. I'll work with the bobsleigh guys and see what we can put together.

"My focus is really on the bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics. We missed out on a medal in Sochi so I'm very focused on going and redeeming that and hopefully getting that medal that we should have got."